CNN Central News & Network–ITDC India Epress/ITDC News Bhopal: The BJP on Tuesday launched a counter-offensive to the Opposition’s Constitution jab, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi using the 49th anniversary of the Emergency as a reason to hit out at the Congress. In a scathing attack on the Congress, Modi wrote on X that those who imposed the Emergency had no right to profess their love for the Constitution.
“Those who imposed the Emergency have no right to profess their love for our Constitution. These are the same people who have imposed Article 356 on innumerable occasions, got a Bill to destroy press freedom, destroyed federalism and violated every aspect of the Constitution,” he said.
He accused the Congress Government of disregarding democratic principles to cling on to power. “Any person who disagreed with the Congress was tortured and harassed. Socially regressive policies were unleashed to target the weakest sections,” Modi added.
He further said the mindset which led to the imposition of the Emergency was very much alive among the same Party which imposed it. “They hide their disdain for the Constitution through their tokenism but the people of India have seen through their antics and that is why they have rejected them time and again,” the Prime Minister added.
Besides Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah too called Emergency the biggest example of the opposition party’s long history of killing democracy and harming it repeatedly.
BJP president J P Nadda said on ‘X’ that those who claim to be the guardians of Indian democracy today had spared no efforts to suppress the voices raised in the defence of constitutional values.